Includes bibliographical references and index

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Moderata Fonte and "The Worth of Women" -- Introduction -- Life and Early Works -- Structure and Arguments -- The Question of Unity -- "The Worth of Women" and Renaissance Literary Tradition -- Fortunes and Influence -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Key to Abbreviations -- Note on the Text -- A Note on Fonte's Sources -- The Worth of Women -- Dedicatory Letter -- Life of Moderata Fonte -- First Day -- Second Day -- Appendix -- The Theme of Women's Equality with Men in Moderata Fonte's "Floridoro."

"Written in dialogue form, the work purportedly records a conversation among seven Venetian noblewomen of widely varying age and experience, whose discussions, though lossely unified around the theme of men's unjustifiable hostility to women and possible cures for it, range over almost every aspects of their lives."--Introduction, p.1

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